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T. W. KIMBELL. CHECK STUB HOLDER.-

No. 562,620. Patented June 23, 1896.

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THOMAS XV. KIMBELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CHECK-STUB HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 562,620, dated June 23, 1896.

Application filed March 13, 1896. Serial No. 583,110. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS W. KIMBELL, of New York city, in the county and State of New Yorlnhave invented a new and Improved Check-Stub Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to devices for holding the stubs of checks compactly in engagement with the cover of a check-book, and the object is to provide a device of simple and comparatively inexpensive construction which maybe quickly and easily attached to a check-book and so constructed that a stub may be easily inserted underneath the holder without disturbing the stubs previously placed underneath the same.

The invention comprises a spring-tongue adapted for removable engagement with the cover of a check-book to engage the stubs turned thereon.

The invention further consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter specified, and pointed out in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a check book, showing the device embodying my invention as applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an edge view thereof, and Fig. 3 is an end view.

The stub-holder is formed of a single piece or strip of resilient metal. It comprises a tongue portion, consisting of side members 1, and a connecting end member 2, adapted to engage over the stubs 3, turned against the cover at of a check-book. At the outer ends of the side members 1 the metal is turned outward, as shown at 5, and then downward, as at G, then inward, as at 7, and then the ends are extended in the direction of the side members 1, as shown at 8, these ends terminating in coils 9, forming smooth ends to prevent the marring of the outer side of the book cover, with which they engage.

In operation, it will be seen that the parts 1, 2, and 5 engage or are arranged on the inner side of the book-cover, so that the tongue portion may engage with the check-stubs, as plainly indicated in the drawings. The parts 7 and 8 of the device engage against the outer side of the book-cover.

As before stated, the device is made of resilient metal. Therefore it is evident that the tongue may be easily elevated in order to place a stub underneath the same after a check shall have been removed therefrom, and also that the free ends of the members 1 may be sufficiently separated or drawn apart to allow the portions 5 and 7 to engage over the edges of the book-cover.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A check-stub holder, consisting of a single piece of resilient metal having a tongue portion comprising side members, and an end connecting member, the outwardly-extended portions at the free ends of the side members engaging against the inner side of a bookcover, and the inwardly-extended portions adapted to engage against the outer side of the book-cover, substantially as specified.

2. A check-stub holder, consisting of a single piece of resilient metal having a tongue portion comprising side members, and an end connecting member, the outwardly-extended portions at the free ends of the side members engaging against the inner side of a bookcover, the inwardly-extendin g portions adapted to engage against the outer side of the book-cover, and the ends extending in the direction of the side members and terminating in coils, substantially as specified.

THOMAS W. KIMBELL.

Witnesses 1 WILLIAM EIFLER, A. J. WALLAcn. 

